I'm curious
do other black people feel happy about the portrayal of black characters in fantasy literature? I'm 16yr old girl of Nigerian descent and have just re-read the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini and was thinking about this quite seriously. In many of the fantasy novels I've read, the author either goes with the 'Calormenes' school of thinking from CS Lewis, i.e. making them 'dark-faced savages' or bending over backwards to make sure that the reader knows that they're good people, but then making them so good that they're annoying.
And what about those people who feel that they belong to neither black nor white social demographics? Do you feel under-represented or are you indifferent?
Comments and replies much needed and appreciated (I'm trying to write an essay on this).
The authoress thanks ye